Below are a series
of public domain images that may be of interest. Photographs are by Bernard Ellis, Ronald Ellis, and Rev. Peter
Shepherd. The photographs indicated by an asterisk are those
taken by Rev. Peter Shepherd. If used they will need to be credited.

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THE CLARENDON PRESS,
OXFORD

01

1. The Clarendon Building and the Sheldonian Theatre,
Oxford.

LOWER CIRCULAR ROAD
BAPTIST CHURCH, CALCUTTA

0102

1. Lower Circular Road Baptist Church, Calcutta.

2*. The memorial to William Carey in Lower Circular
Road Baptist Church.

BAPTIST MISSION PRESS,
CALCUTTA

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1. Map of Calcutta showing Baptist Mission Press
in relation to other places of interest.

2. A 3D Drawing of the Calcutta Baptist Mission
Compound.

3. A 3D Drawing of Baptist Mission Press. Medium
(68kb).

4. A 3D Drawing of Baptist Mission Press. Large
(116kb).

5. A 3D Drawing of the Press only showing relevant Departments.
Medium (72kb).

6. A 3D Drawing of the Press only showing relevant
Departments. Large (136kb).

7. Exterior of the Press from Lower Circular Road showing
the Book Room and Elliott Road.

8. Exterior of the Press from Lower Circular Road.

9. Exterior of the Press from ground level.

10. The main gate.

11. Norman Ellis, Superintendent 1932-1960, in his office.

12. Bernard Ellis, when Assistant Superintendent (1947-1960).
Superintendent (1960-1966) with senior members of the office
staff.

13. Group photograph of all Baptist Mission Press staff
on Bernard and Freda Ellis's retirement in 1966.

14. The Composing Room where text was skillfully composed
by hand in the time honoured fashion. The forms were broken down
after printing, the individual pieces of type were cleaned and
replaced in the cases. (Image taken from a pre-World War 2 BMP
booklet)

15. The delivery of paper from Titaghur Paper Mills. Titaghur
is on the opposite bank of the Hooghly to Serampore, and is just
south of Barrackpore.

16. Linotype Department. Copy was keyed in by hand. Moulds
(called matrixes) fell down from the top of the machine and lined
up in the correct order. Wedge shaped word spaces were then inserted
to fill out the line of type. The whole line was then cast as
a slug (hence Linotype) and the matrixes returned to the top
of the machine to be re-used. After printing the slugs were melted
down and the metal re-used. Before computers this is how all
newspapers were set.

18. The paper tape was fed into a Monotype Setter and
each character was cast individually from molten metal (hence
Monotype). Usually used for book production as it provided the
best quality print. After printing the type was melted down and
the metal re-used.

19. Exterior of the Machine Room.

20. Interior of the Machine Room where the printing was
done. The picture shows cylinder presses, but there were also
platen machines for small print runs which were fed by hand.

21. A new automatic Heidelberg letterpress platen machine.

22. The Binding Department where pages were collated,
stitched and bound into books.

23. Senior Baptist Mission Press staff get together
on a day off.

24. Moving machinery.

25. The Confidential Department where examination papers
for universities all over India were produced. Suresh, the manager,
is on the right.

26. A new cylinder letterpress machine is installed in
the Confidential Department.

27. The Book Shop with the manager seated right.

28. Some satisfied European customers.

29. Some satisfied customers from Bhutan.

30. Loading up for delivery to the customer.

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